Southern University System H-1B wage filings

Baton Rouge, LA. Last filed in fiscal 2026. Figures cover every filing since fiscal 2020; none in the latest 12 months reach five.

Southern University System filed 16 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from fiscal 2020 to fiscal 2026. The median wage it offered was $90,000, 15.0% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs.

Filings since FY2020
16
Positions covered
15
Certified
93.8%
Job titles
10
Worksite cities
1
Last filed
FY2026

Offered wage since 2020

Southern University System made 16 filings across 6 fiscal years since 2020, too few in most years to track the wage year by year. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2020, with 6 filings.

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wageFilings per year

$40k$60k$80k$100k$61k$90k62020220213202212023320240202512026*

Fiscal years run October to September. Fiscal 2026 is still running: these figures cover October 2025 to June 2026.

Southern University System by fiscal year

Fiscal yearFilingsMedian offeredvs year beforeMedian prevailingvs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)1n/an/an/an/a
20250n/an/an/an/a
20243n/an/an/an/a
20231n/an/an/an/a
20223$90,000n/a$77,293+15.1%
20212n/an/an/an/a
20206$60,500n/a$53,247+0.7%

Offered wage by job title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Job titleFilingsMedian offeredOffered range and prevailing wagevs prevailing
Analyst for Institutional Effectiveness2$49,317at the minimum
Assistant Professor of Finance2$94,650+3.6%
Associate Professor of Finance2$106,810+17.1%
Associate Professor of Management2$90,000+4.9%
Exec. Dir. Intellectual Prop. Corporate, Global Business2$120,000+20.9%
Executive Director2$85,500+15.1%
Assistant Professor1$62,000+22.8%
Assistant Professor in Biology1$59,000+23.3%
Director of Institutional Accountability & Prof. Development1$90,000+16.4%
Research Assistant Professor1$80,000+46.4%

Where the jobs are

WorksiteFilingsMedian offered
Baton Rouge, LA16$90,000

By visa type: 16 H-1B. By outcome: 14 certified, 1 certified and later withdrawn, 1 denied.

Seniority of the jobs filed

Level I, entry33%
Level II, qualified20%
Level III, experienced40%
Level IV, fully competent7%

The government assigns each job one of four wage levels. A higher level means a higher legal minimum.

What these numbers are

Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC disclosure data. How we clean and count it.

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